I am for you. I've got your back. I am committed to your best. Help me understand things from your perspective. What can we do together to change things?
Great marriages have an ease about them, a back-and-forth nonreactive, nondefensive, open, and ongoing flow in which you never stop talking and figuring it out together.
Eternal life then is a certain kind of life I am living more and more now and will go on forever.17 I am living more and more in connection with God, and I will live connected with God forever. This h...
Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them ....
Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying Repent!? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all
But it isn’t a choice, because Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life. If you come across truth in any form, it isn’t outside your faith as a Christian. Your faith just got bigger. To be a Chri...
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by.
Are you breathing? Are you here? Did you just take a breath? Are you about to take another? Do you have a habit of regularly doing this? Gift. Gift. Gift. Whatever else has happened in your life—failu...
When people debate faith vs. science they’ve already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it’s found, and that of course includes science.) He’s
You cannot control how people are going to respond to you and your work in the world. Surrendering the outcomes does not mean that we don't care or we aren't emotionally involved or we are indifferent...
What would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters, that it's needed, that you have a path and y...
We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficienc...
Groups have a center of gravity. Families, friends, churches, offices, and schools all have a dominant consciousness, a center of gravity, a party line. It’s the often unspoken agreement that keeps th...
Gospel is the announcement of who God insists you are. You’re a child of God, not because of how great you are but because God has all kinds of kids and you’re one of them.
God doesn’t wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish—God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created.
For Jesus, the question wasn’t, How do I get into heaven? but How do I bring heaven here?
For Jesus the point is fruit. You’ll know people by their fruit, by their life, by how they actually live in the world. Lots of people get excited about new ideas, and then they shove these new unders...
First, the Bible has to be interpreted. When someone says they’re just doing what the Bible says to do, they didn’t greet you with a holy kiss, they’re probably wearing two kinds of fabric sewn togeth...